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I probably should have realized sooner
I just realized what certain points of my feminist philosophy that conflict with a lot the shallow pop feminism on the internet have in common with my dissatisfaction with a lot of the escapist reading I try to do only to be thwarted by unpleasant in the world I'm supposed to prefer to this one. I believe that any better world worth building in ( Read more... ) -
Refreshing the internet's memory
Amidst the controversy surrounding the news that Orson Scott Card is going to write for DC and there is finally some progress being made on the long-planned Ender's Game movie, a very important fact keeps getting lost. That is the fact that Orson Scott Card wants homosexuality to be criminalized. He does not merely oppose gay marriage or merely ( Read more... ) -
Let's play bingo!!!
I need to make cards for Wanky "Hard" SF Writer Bingo. These are the spaces I have so far:
Turing Test that Alan Turing wouldn't have passed- Proving an entity's sapience and personhood involves demonstrating that the entity has a prurient interest in young, female humans. In many cases of this, the entity in question does not even have an ( Read more... ) -
Uphill battle
I've been struggling to climb out of this pit for the last two days, and I think I'm finally getting somewhere. I was actually a little bit productive today, and I'm starting to feel excited about starting my experiment next week instead of just feeling scared ( Read more... ) -
Posting again
I've been feeling guilty lately because I've been neglecting Dreamwidth and LJ posting, and I can't rightly blame it on being too busy with grad school or too distracted by tumblr. The truth is, I've been in a psychological hole for a while now. I've had time but not enough energy or spirit to make use of it. I am determined to do really good ( Read more... ) -
Stupid Winchesters getting into everything
So there's this femslash challenge that some of the multifandom/panfannish people on tumblr are doing, and everything was rolling along just fine for a while . . . until the Wincester Nation attacked! Now there's controversy because some people decided that the appropriate response to a general call for femslash submissions was genderswap Wincest ( Read more... ) -
It's beginning!
I got my specimens this morning! Then I spent the rest of the scrounging up ingredients to make the medium they need to grow. I'd been hoping to have the medium ready by the time they came in, but I've been sick since Sunday. I'm feeling better now (not at 100% health, but much better than Tuesday)-- just in time to get my medium made up, except ( Read more... ) -
I think this counts as a milestone of some sort
Y'all, I think I just finished writing my first grant proposal. It's due Monday, which means I'll probably go back to fix it up tomorrow, decide it's terrible, freak out, and turn it in just under the wire anyway. But I don't think there's anything of substance I can add without exceeding the page limit.
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A small mystery solved
A little background: Years and years ago, a very long time indeed by internet standards, I read the book Les Miserables and frequented a message board (remember those?) for fans of the book. I never saw the musical because I lived way out in the middle of nowhere until such as I had moved onto other fandoms. I remember there being a great deal " ( Read more... )